Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Arc BLEACH 千年血戦篇 Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War
Synopsis
Bleach: Sennen Kessen-hen is about Substitute Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki spends his days fighting against Hollows, dangerous evil spirits that threaten Karakura Town. Ichigo carries out his quest with his closest allies: Orihime Inoue, his childhood friend with a talent for healing; Yasutora Sado, his high school classmate with superhuman strength; and Uryuu Ishida, Ichigo’s Quincy rival.
Ichigo’s vigilante routine is disrupted by the sudden appearance of Asguiaro Ebern, a dangerous Arrancar who heralds the return of Yhwach, an ancient Quincy king. Yhwach seeks to reignite the historic blood feud between Soul Reaper and Quincy, and he sets his sights on erasing both the human world and the Soul Society for good.
Yhwach launches a two-pronged invasion into both the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo, the home of Hollows and Arrancar. In retaliation, Ichigo and his friends must fight alongside old allies and enemies alike to end Yhwach’s campaign of carnage before the world itself comes to an end.
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Review
The final arc of Bleach started and honestly a lot of importance has happened to make it worthy a review of the whole thing. This is about the first 3 Episodes and it seems people want to push the hate over the quality of the show. This review will give you a different perspective with foresight about what to happen.
These 3 episodes so far where everything and build up with mostly talks giving us information we didnt knew while information we don’t know being kept reserved.
The pacing is better than in the manga but even with that it took 3 episodes for the set up for the invasion of the Wandenreich, the main antagonist, to finish.
The anime is fixing out a lot of content from the manga, most were needless like the interaction between Arrancar and the main cast mid battle against one of the lastest foes. But that can hardly be called a battle since after each attack there were several minutes worthy on characters sharing information.
Additional content promised add much either. Uryu and Ryuuken get a scene where they interact and it would seem Uryu would push his dad for more information… sadly we don’t see that happen. Thus many of the additional scenes feel welcome.
Another needed scene is that is that the whole cast appear to fight a bunch of hollow instead of just Ichigo. Despite being vastly superior, they all use their strongest abilities like Ichigo using his freaking Bankai against to welcome the fans once again. If someone is complaining fanservice just because its dumb ichigo will use it on weaker enemies then they were never fans on the first place.
Regarding the infogreat scenes, the viewers are introduced to 2 POV characters who suppose to be fully-fledged Shinigami, did seem to have gotten a briefing about the area they are going to protect like how Ichigo Kurosaki looks like and Spiritual Awareness.
The setting is also lifefull. While it was night while the hollows attacked, the explosions and chaos created during the fights did cause a lot of panic.
Same in Soul Society where a murder ocurred off screen and we don’t see any of it.
Also the anime adapted perfectly Kubo’s cinematography visually like how Ichigo recalls what Uryu said about the phone call infogreat in the manga, a missing scene in the anime that got so needed to be expanded to safe animation and pace in the runtime. Kubo is apparently involved but a very good scene like that is gone to the heavens.
But if you turn on your brain and consume the pretty visuals and excellent narrative, it is easy to get what is going on. Certainly worthy a movie or old style OVA. The opening is also a great advertisement treating characters that do a lot later as important. But the opening and ending songs are amazing. Some redone ost are also good like Number 1 while others like Hollowfied sound better.
If you have already read the arc, you are getting much out of it unless you want to see the big scenes animated for which you have to wait at least for episode 4 where the invasion begins.
If you are a intelligent consumer, if you like pretty colors… great animation, visuals, complex characters and great story. you have them here
If you want something else, then go look for it.
